Changes between Version 46 and Version 47 of Old/Dailyupdates

Timestamp:

Jul 10, 2007, 9:07:40 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

aniket

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 In order to determine the shape, we had one robot wander around orbit (we had some grid time today) taking measurements. The data is difficult to interpret, but I have begun to do some preliminary curve fitting to it. My hope is to be able to crack the code and be able to reliably identify the location of the access point from a random sampling of the large set of data. So far the prospects are dim - the data is very noisy.
 
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+== 7/9/07 - day 25 ==
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+Serious hardware complications are stifling our progress. Two of our three robots are out of commission, apparently due to a fault in the RCM unit. We have written to the evolution team regarding the problem and hope to hear back soon.
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+I have begun porting our scanning_thread() python script to c++. We have been able to compile a few c++ codes now, and I expect before long we will switch away from python in favor of the more flexible and feature-rich c++ libraries.
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+== 7/10/07 - day 26 ==
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+The robots are still broken.
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+We are working on a small project that will go live tomorrow at 7pm when we have some grid time scheduled. The plan is to use our scanning_thread() python script on every node on the grid (except 1 which will be an access point, and of course many nodes are out of comission and unusable). The plan is to generate a map of the signal strength in the room and study it until we can find a shape that fits it well.
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+We have collected data from the robot wandering around the orbit room. The data is incomprehensible, and no shape fits it very well. Hopefully our grid experiment will provide us with some better results.